On Thu, 2007-11-15 at 08:38 +0000, Jim Wight wrote: > On Wed, 2007-11-14 at 13:56 -0800, semi linux wrote: > > On Nov 13, 2007 5:49 AM, David Hrbáč <hrbac.conf at seznam.cz> wrote: > > > Alain Spineux napsal(a): > > > > On Oct 15, 2007 2:09 PM, David Hrbáč <hrbac.conf at seznam.cz> wrote: > > > >> Hi, > > > >> anyone to point me URL on initrd.img creating? I have custom kernel and > > > >> want to create initrd.img for install media. > > > >> mkinitrd /tmp/initrd.img 2.6.18-8.1.14.el5.hrb -v -f create unusable > > > >> file for install media. > > > ><snip> > Not necessarily. For the changes I make I find the following sufficient: > > mkdir initrd; cd initrd > gunzip -c --suffix '.img' /boot/initrd-abc.img | cpio -i > > and > > find . -print | cpio -c -o | gzip -c9 >/boot/initrd-xyz.img > > Jim It's been awhile, but last time I did it, Jim's basic scenario is what I used. I don't recall if my cpio params were exactly the same, but after the unzipping step, "file <filename>" will give you the clues to the parameters to cpio. > <snip sig stuff> -- Bill